Lecture 1 Self Evaluation And Healthy Change Flashcards
What’s Health?
State of complete well-being
What’s wellness?
Adopting patterns of behavior; improving health
5 types of health is…
- Physical
- Mental
- Social
- Spiritual
- Environmental
Physical health
Focuses on body
Mental health
Focuses on emotions and intellectual
Spiritual health
Focuses on values
Environmental health
Focuses on condition of environment
Salutogenesis
Focuses on factors that support human health
What does Western Medicine focus on?
Factors that cause diseases
Individual(Intrinsic) is…
Unique set of characteristics
Environment (Extrinsic) is….
Relationships with people
Social determinants of health influence…..
Choices you make and options given
Genes are…
A set of genetic instructions in our DNA
DNA acts as…
Building blocks that can form messages that acts as an instruction booklet
How many genes are in each cell?
20,500
What did Human Genome Project accelerate and improved on?
Accelerated study of human biology and improved practice of medicine
What are chromosomes?
DNA bundled into structures
How many pairs of chromosomes?
23
What’s differentiation?
Cells becoming specialized( Ex:muscle cells)
What’s Heredity?
Genetic characters transferred from parents to offspring
What’s genetic inheritance?
Chromosomes coming from mom and dad
Alleles are…
Alternative forms of the same gene
What’s mutation?
Change in allele
What causes multifactorial disorders?
Genes interacting with environment
Fancy name for family health tree
Genogram/genetic pedigree
